Golden Anvil

My Saturday was very busy! Just last week, I started volunteering a few hours a month at the Ogden Pregnancy Center. I figured if both my Mom and Mother-in-law were involved, I should be too. Actually, it just started out with me wanting to make baby cards for them, now I'm going to do that and go in a few hours a month to work on the admin side of things - filing papers, etc.

Anyway, because of that, I found out the volunteers were doing a beading party. I went with some wire hoops and old beads I had laying around and got a feel for what it was like to make jewelry. Oh boy...am I hooked! I went home and with a glimmer in my eye looked at my husband and said, "I have a new hobby!" Today I went out and bought the essential pliers and a bead board. I'll be keeping my eye out for coupons that come in the mail as a I begin building my wire and bead collection. (Hint Hint - Gift cards to a craft store would be a perfect birthday gift!)

Then, if it couldn't get any better, in the evening I went to a Steven Curtis Chapman concert. He is currently on a tour promoting adoption (they have adopted three girls from China). Donation buckets were all over the place, and t-shirts could be bought to help with SCC's adoption foundation - Shaohannah's Hope. At the end of the evening, the money was donated to a family currently in the process of adopting a child from China - they raised $3200, not including what SCC was donating. Pretty good for, as Andrew put it, "The three Christians in Utah going to see the concert."

So that was my weekend. I'm dragging my feet getting back into "real life" activities such as cleaning my house. I've managed to put it off a little longer by typing this blog, but now it's really time to go and get some work done. Love to you all.